Form an LLC · VT

How to form an LLC in Vermont

Vermont LLCs are formed by filing Articles of Organization with the Vermont Secretary of State, Corporations Division — the official filing fee is $155 (see the fee notes below). Corpus prepares and files it for $275 all-in, including your first year of registered-agent service.

Form your Vermont LLC

What Vermont requires

Formation document
Articles of Organization verified 2026-09-24
Filing office
Vermont Secretary of State, Corporations Division verified 2026-09-24
Vermont filing fee for the Articles of Organization
$155 Articles of organization. verified 2026-09-30
  • Optional: $25 application for reserved name (optional name reservation under 11 V.S.A. § 4012). source
  • 11 V.S.A. § 4012 sets the articles fee at $155, and the SOS LLC page says there is no extra fee for online filing. source · source 2
Online filing
Yes — Vermont allows domestic LLC formation filings through the Secretary of State’s online system. verified 2026-09-24
Standard processing time
Online filing normally takes less than 1 business day; mail filings take 7 to 10 business days. The LLC page does not state an expedited option. verified 2026-09-30
Expedited options
None listed by the state. verified 2026-09-30
  • The SOS LLC page says online filing is preferred and that there is no extra fee for online filing. source
Name requirement
The name must contain “limited liability company,” “limited company,” “L.L.C.,” “LLC,” “L.C.” or “LC”; “Ltd.” and “Co.” may abbreviate words. verified 2026-09-24
Registered agent
Required — A Vermont LLC must designate and continuously maintain an agent for service of process. verified 2026-09-24
LLC statute
Vermont Limited Liability Company Act, 11 V.S.A. chapter 25 verified 2026-09-24

What you’ll need

The Corpus intake collects this information to prepare the filing. Some questions are asked only when they apply — for example, the management question is asked only when the company has more than one owner.

  • What do you want to name the company?
  • In a sentence, what will the business actually do?
  • Where should official mail go — street, city, state, ZIP?
  • What email should we use for this order?
  • Which industry code fits this business?
  • Besides you, will anyone else have authority to make decisions for the business?
  • Who owns this company?

Vermont asks nothing beyond the standard questions.

What it costs with Corpus

State fees (filing fee + the state's processing charges)
$155
Registered agent, year one
$100
Corpus service
$20
Total at checkout
$275

Registered agent renews at $99/yr after the included first year — cancel anytime. Itemized pricing for every state is on the price grid; how Corpus compares to other formation services is on the comparison page.

After you form: staying in good standing

Annual report
Annual report — within three months after the end of the LLC's fiscal year. verified 2026-09-30
  • The statute fee is $45; the SOS page also says an LLC annual report is due within three months after fiscal year end. source · source 2
Report fee
$45 verified 2026-09-30
Franchise or privilege tax
$250 minimum Vermont business entity tax — only when a partnership-classified LLC has Vermont activity. verified 2026-09-30
  • Rates, caps, thresholds, apportionment and exemptions: see Vermont Department of Taxes. The source covers Vermont-active partnership-classified LLCs but does not resolve the default single-member disregarded case. source

Comparing what registered-agent service costs after year one across providers? The comparison page publishes renewal prices.

Form it with your AI agent

You don’t have to do the intake here. Any agent that can open a link can run the whole thing — Corpus’s formation tools give it Vermont’s requirements and live price, it asks you the questions above, and it hands back a prefilled link you review and pay. Paste this into your assistant:

Form an LLC in Vermont for me with Corpus (corpuslaw.us). Use its formation tools to get Vermont's requirements and price, ask me what you need, and give me the prefilled link.

The guide is on /agents, the protocol reference is /docs/mcp, and the installable skill for this state is the Vermont SKILL.md.

Sources

Every verified fact above names where Corpus read it and the date it was last verified. Sources marked secondary are third-party write-ups used only where an official page did not publish the answer.

Corpus is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. Fees and rules change — each verified fact above shows the date Corpus last verified it; anything marked “not yet verified” should be confirmed with the filing office.